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Article: The neo-neoconservative: in explaining how his movement went wrong, Francis Fukuyama all but embraces liberal internationalism.(America at the Crossroads)(Book review)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- May 1, 2006
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America at the Crossroads By Francis Fukuyama Yale University Press, $25.00
You could be excused for thinking that the war in Iraq was a perfect match for Francis Fukuyama's view of the world. In 1998, after all, the famed political scholar was one of many prominent intellectuals who signed the Project for a New American Century's letter urging the Clinton administration to take a harder line against Saddam Hussein (he also signed a follow-up letter shortly after 9/11). And nine years before that, as the Cold War was winding down, Fukuyama published what is still his most famous book, The End of History and the Last Man. In it, he made the argument that there is ...